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Punctuation and Capitalization

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Do you need a special key to remove the factory Blaupunkt stereo from an N reg 306 xrdt?

Just slide a couple of thin strips of metal undue the bottom of the stereo about 2cm from the edge on each side give it a wiggle and put it in the bin where it belongs! Matt

Would I capitalize the words English and history in a sentence talking about subjects that I love?

Only the word English is capitalized. History should not be capitalized.

Example:

English and history are the subjects that I love.

Where is bus 31 in South Orange?

Going to Newark, the 31 bus stops on Irvington Avenue across from Carvel. Going to Livingston/Maplewood, the bus stops in front of Rite Aid pharmacy on South Orange Avenue and also stops on the corner of Ward Place and South Orange Avenue across the street from Seton Hall.

Technique for oil painting bricks on canvass?

Painting a fully lit red brick wall with no major areas of cast shadow: Burnt Sienna, cad yellow, cad red, burnt umber, yellow ochre and white. 1/4 to 1" bristle and sable bright brushes First: assume the since a real wall's surface is handmade, ergo irregular, both as individual units (bricks) and as finaished surface (wall)its color will therefore be irregular and varied as a color "field" because each brick is slightly different and the light will strike the wall unevenly. This is good news! It saves you from the tedium of "getting it just right." Choose the direction from with light falls across the brick wall, lets say from up left at about 10 o'clock high, so to speak. Now paint the entire wall as a single midtone, brick color without trying to make the color uniformly mixed. Onto this "mass tone" loosely brush in more irregularities of lighter (tending to the yellows) and darker tones (tending to the umbers). DO NOT BEGIN BY TRYING TO PAINT INDIVIDUAL BRICKS. Try to paint what you would see if you squinted just enough to be unable to see the mortar. Make the wall slightly darker in its mass tones as it draws closer to the side where the light is closest (the upper left wall) and slightly lighter on the side away from the light (lower right.) Now use the sable brush, a 1/2 or 1" is fine. Make a puddle of ochre, white and umber lighter than your brick mass tones, but now so light it looks white on the canvas. With the widest surface of the brush flat on the palette draw the brush TOWARD you through the paint repeatedly, one side then the other creating a flat, sharp chisel shape. Touch the brush lightly which will make a this straight line the width of your brush (a 1" brush will leave a 1" line), a light pressure will leave a five mark. Lift the brush, move to the end of the first mark and lightly touch again. You will now have a 2" line. Repeat, frequently wiping and re-loading the brush in the described way. Make groups of parallel mortar lines. Its not important to make them all. Youre trying to get the viewer to have a 'Hey, look, its mortar! reaction, not- geese look at all those fat lines) Make a few tiny vertical "lines" of mortar color here and there, always alternating so that each vertical line splits one brick and bumps the middle of the brick below and above it. After the first application sets you can rework the entire process with more limited applications, perhaps adding an occasional fleck of lights and darks to individual bricks (lights on the upper left which hangs out from the mortar to reach the light and darks on the lower right which is shaded by the opposite effect.) Just remember, unevenness is the nature of the real thing so don't try to be precise. JGrant Painting a fully lit red brick wall with no major areas of cast shadow: Burnt Sienna, cad yellow, cad red, burnt umber, yellow ochre and white. 1/4 to 1" bristle and sable bright brushes First: assume the since a real wall's surface is handmade, ergo irregular, both as individual units (bricks) and as finaished surface (wall)its color will therefore be irregular and varied as a color "field" because each brick is slightly different and the light will strike the wall unevenly. This is good news! It saves you from the tedium of "getting it just right." Choose the direction from with light falls across the brick wall, lets say from up left at about 10 o'clock high, so to speak. Now paint the entire wall as a single midtone, brick color without trying to make the color uniformly mixed. Onto this "mass tone" loosely brush in more irregularities of lighter (tending to the yellows) and darker tones (tending to the umbers). DO NOT BEGIN BY TRYING TO PAINT INDIVIDUAL BRICKS. Try to paint what you would see if you squinted just enough to be unable to see the mortar. Make the wall slightly darker in its mass tones as it draws closer to the side where the light is closest (the upper left wall) and slightly lighter on the side away from the light (lower right.) Now use the sable brush, a 1/2 or 1" is fine. Make a puddle of ochre, white and umber lighter than your brick mass tones, but now so light it looks white on the canvas. With the widest surface of the brush flat on the palette draw the brush TOWARD you through the paint repeatedly, one side then the other creating a flat, sharp chisel shape. Touch the brush lightly which will make a this straight line the width of your brush (a 1" brush will leave a 1" line), a light pressure will leave a five mark. Lift the brush, move to the end of the first mark and lightly touch again. You will now have a 2" line. Repeat, frequently wiping and re-loading the brush in the described way. Make groups of parallel mortar lines. Its not important to make them all. Youre trying to get the viewer to have a 'Hey, look, its mortar! reaction, not- geese look at all those fat lines) Make a few tiny vertical "lines" of mortar color here and there, always alternating so that each vertical line splits one brick and bumps the middle of the brick below and above it. After the first application sets you can rework the entire process with more limited applications, perhaps adding an occasional fleck of lights and darks to individual bricks (lights on the upper left which hangs out from the mortar to reach the light and darks on the lower right which is shaded by the opposite effect.) Just remember, unevenness is the nature of the real thing so don't try to be precise. JGrant Painting a fully lit red brick wall with no major areas of cast shadow: Burnt Sienna, cad yellow, cad red, burnt umber, yellow ochre and white. 1/4 to 1" bristle and sable bright brushes First: assume the since a real wall's surface is handmade, ergo irregular, both as individual units (bricks) and as finaished surface (wall)its color will therefore be irregular and varied as a color "field" because each brick is slightly different and the light will strike the wall unevenly. This is good news! It saves you from the tedium of "getting it just right." Choose the direction from with light falls across the brick wall, lets say from up left at about 10 o'clock high, so to speak. Now paint the entire wall as a single midtone, brick color without trying to make the color uniformly mixed. Onto this "mass tone" loosely brush in more irregularities of lighter (tending to the yellows) and darker tones (tending to the umbers). DO NOT BEGIN BY TRYING TO PAINT INDIVIDUAL BRICKS. Try to paint what you would see if you squinted just enough to be unable to see the mortar. Make the wall slightly darker in its mass tones as it draws closer to the side where the light is closest (the upper left wall) and slightly lighter on the side away from the light (lower right.) Now use the sable brush, a 1/2 or 1" is fine. Make a puddle of ochre, white and umber lighter than your brick mass tones, but now so light it looks white on the canvas. With the widest surface of the brush flat on the palette draw the brush TOWARD you through the paint repeatedly, one side then the other creating a flat, sharp chisel shape. Touch the brush lightly which will make a this straight line the width of your brush (a 1" brush will leave a 1" line), a light pressure will leave a five mark. Lift the brush, move to the end of the first mark and lightly touch again. You will now have a 2" line. Repeat, frequently wiping and re-loading the brush in the described way. Make groups of parallel mortar lines. Its not important to make them all. Youre trying to get the viewer to have a 'Hey, look, its mortar! reaction, not- geese look at all those fat lines) Make a few tiny vertical "lines" of mortar color here and there, always alternating so that each vertical line splits one brick and bumps the middle of the brick below and above it. After the first application sets you can rework the entire process with more limited applications, perhaps adding an occasional fleck of lights and darks to individual bricks (lights on the upper left which hangs out from the mortar to reach the light and darks on the lower right which is shaded by the opposite effect.) Just remember, unevenness is the nature of the real thing so don't try to be precise. JGrant

Do you capitalize dad in the sentence Pete's dad took the car for gas?

Yes, capitalize "Dad" in the sentence because it is used as a proper noun, indicating a specific person (Pete's father).

When is it proper to capitalize Board?

The short answer is not yet.

The Long answer is, quite simply, that these things go in cycles. The nature of the word "board" is such that it can only be capitalized during select 4-year periods that occur once every 55 years. The next one was scheduled for 1983, but because of the famous court case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 the period was started earlier to add professionalism to the case. Capitalization was allowed until 1957, a mere three years because it was used a heck of a lot in 1954. This shifts the whole cycle back 29 years, meaning that the next cycle is fast approaching and will commence on Chirsmas Day, 2011. Enjoy it while you can, bro.

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What is the correct punctuation of mom at the end of a sentence?

Mom is a proper noun (when addressing a particular person) and should be capitalized. Sentences should end with a full-stop/full point (.), an exclamation mark (!) or a question mark (?).

Examples:

"... please tell this to Mom."

"... I'd better finish for now, Mom. See you soon!"

"Oh, Mom!"

" ... this could be of interest to any mom." (Notice: no specific mother is being referred to here).

How has Western Canada been alienated from Eastern Canada?

Good question. From an easterner's point of view;Canada;s power and population base leans toward the east.Notoriously more so towards Quebec ,it's federal power base and eastern Canad's give em everything they want attitude to pacify the separatist movement in that province.As long as Quebec remains in Canada the West is nothing more than money and resources destined to find it's way to the back pockets of butt kissing politicians and Quebecers hell bent on keeping Canada together,for all the wrong reasons,no matter how much is taken from the West or for that matter no matter how much is distributed among the elite in Quebec all in the name of national unity.Hence the justified feelings of alienation of Westerner Canadians. **** Here is another, historical, take on it. Going back to the earlier times at the turn of the 20th century when the prairies (Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta) were young provinces, just growing, there was a federal government policy to support Canadian industry by substantial tariffs. These hurt the farmers who received world prices for their produce, but had to pay higher than world prices for what they bought to support the less efficient Canadian manufacturers. These were inefficient as it was not so possible to reap the benefits of mass production in Canada as our neighbour to the south. Likewise, the major "controlling" institutions of the era, federal government, banks, railways, insurance companies, mostly had their head offices in Montreal, Ottawa or Toronto. Thus, the westerners came to feel like they were a colony of Canada, not sharing in all aspects of the progress. They ended up with the "grunt" work, but most of the managerial work was done in the east, and that was where decisions were made too. The railways, both of them headquartered in Montreal, were especially detested. Over time, as resources came to be more important, the federal government came to see these as a total Candian inheritance, and began to use energy in particular as a part of their strategy to help Canadian industry (still centered in the east) by lowering Canadian prices in the infamous "National Energy Policy" in the early 1980's. Though since rescinded, the hard feelings carried on. The perception of the western provinces is that they have been called upon to share their largesse with the rest of the country, but its always a one way street. A nasty nickname for Toronto is "hogtown" as it seems for many years to have increased in wealth so much at the expense of the rest of the country. I don't see the mood as bad as it once was. I have seen many elements of good will across the country in the past ten years of sharing, In one direction, after the horrible floods in Manitoba's Red River district in 1977, the country rallied to help them, from east to west, and likewise when Quebec suffered the ice storm of 1978 there was a national volunteering of resources to replace so much of the electric grid there. The mood is also better as Alberta, and Saskatchewan of late, have enjoyed great prosperity. In Alberta's case it is doubtful they could even absorb much more in the way of money flow than they are experiencing today.

Does the word copay have to be hyphenated?

Copay is a relatively recent term. It is not hyphenated. In general, short words like this are not hyphenated.

What does the 2 squiggly line punctuation mark mean?

The 2 squiggly lines (~) is called a tilde. It can mean "approximately" or "similar to" in text, as well as indicate a range of values. It is also used in some languages as a diacritic mark to change the pronunciation of a letter.

How would you capitalize sharks for an essay about the USS Indianapolis?

If in the title, yes capitalize sharks. Example:U.S.S. Indianapolis Shark Terror


However, in the essay, shark would be a common noun.

What does previx ante mean?

The prefix 'ante-' means before. It comes from the Latin word 'ante', which means before. An example of this is the word anteroom, which is a smaller room that comes before a larger room.

How should you go about putting a turbo in your 86 jetta gl?

Replace the exaust manifold with Turbo charger and dont forget to install the oil line to the turbo otherwise u will ruin the turbo as of dryness.

Would you capitalize the word bulldog?

Yes, the word "Bulldog" should be capitalized as it is a proper noun referring to a specific breed of dog.

When do you capitalize terms of endearment?

It should be capitalized when it is used in place of the person's name.

In other words, it should be capitalized when it is not preceded by a possessive pronoun.

Should the names of eating disorders be capitalized?

According to the University of Minnesota Style Guide,

"Do not capitalize the names of diseases, syndromes, tests, and other medical terms except for proper nouns that are part of the names."

for instance, "colon cancer" would not be capitalized, but "Lou Gehrig's disease" would be.

When do you use I instead of me in a sentence?

If there is a preposition in front of the pronoun used to describe yourself ("I" or "me"), use me. For instance, "Give the cookie to me". (You wouldn't say "Give the cookie to I.") Also, when listing people along with yourself, use "I". For example, "Kelly and I ate cookies." You can remember this by imagining the "Kelly and" part of the sentence disappearing. You wouldn't say "Me ate cookies" (unless you're Cookie Monster). Make sense? Always use "I" at the beginning of a sentence. At the end of a sentence it's tricky. If you can add "am or "do" after the word "I", than it's probably "I" and not me. "He is fatter than I."- sounds funny, but am can be omitted ("He is fatter than I am.").

Listen to this now, "She wants the baby more than me." Sounds right but it implies that she prefers the baby doll over preferring me, so you would use the sentence "She wants the baby more than I" - which means she wants the baby doll more than I want the baby doll. Hope that helps.

Should hurricane be capitalized?

Not unless your are talking about a specific hurricane like "Hurricane Katrina".

Children song good morning good morning good morning to you where is it from?

This song can be found on iTunes and is by The Hornheads from the Hello on the Go CD http://www.parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=6758&award=xx&from=Baby%20Music%20Boom,%20Inc.

It's a great song and CD, my grandkids love it!

Good Morning to You ... Kathy Mueller The Music Workshop for Kids (3:08)

What is the simple subject in this sentence 'That family enjoys music'?

"Family" is the simple subject in the sentence "That family enjoys music."

The simple subject is the who or what is doing the action or verb.

Do you capitalize south American jungle in a sentence?

Yes, "South American jungle" should be capitalized in a sentence because it is a proper noun referring to a specific geographical region.